Night Hunter

Bouncing and leaping and crunching on bone.

I really wanted to show the typical characteristics of the quoll, but also how visually appealing it is with it’s spotted coat, lithe tail and pointed nose. This painting is one of the artworks I created for children’s book “Snuggled Away” written by Cate Storey.

It was important to Cate of Wet Season Books that the bone look realistic in keeping with our mission to present Australian wildlife accurately to children. I kept the background simple to offset the texture of the quoll’s fur and then had fun with the vines and branches around the moon and stars.

Spotted Tail Quoll with a Common Ringtail Possum bone.

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Sarah Matsuda is a fine artist and children's book painter living in Paddington, Brisbane. Specialising in mixed media, Sarah works on a range of commissioned pieces for books, portraits and also figurative pieces for sale.

The third generation artist on both sides of her family, Sarah's mother is Robyn Bauer the fine artist painter & her father is Mark Andrews the sculptor who created the larger than life "Sheep" at Teneriffe, Brisbane. Her grandmothers Joan Bauer & Pixie Joan Andrews were also both well known, Brisbane artists. Sarah’s first exhibition was a joint exhibition at the age of 13 years old with her mother Robyn, where she showed lino prints coloured with watercolour and sculptures of animals in clay.

Sarah's first solo show was in 2022, in conjunction with the launch of a beautiful children’s book about Australian wildlife called “Snuggled Away” written by Cate Storey and illustrated by Sarah. They have also published a second book "The Perfect Hollow" and their third book "Sunny Finds His Song" is about to be released.

You can commission artworks for subjects including brides and wedding images, boudoir, breastfeeding mother and baby, family portraits & pregnancy.